Ian MacKaye Quotes - Page 2

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• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Community, Playing Music

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• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

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  People, Who We Are, Judgmental

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• It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

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  Emotional, Interesting, Humanity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Just Do It

  "A Conversation with Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson". Spin Interview, www.spin.com. July 22, 2003.

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• I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Sociological, Implications

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Teeth, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Giving, Good Riddance

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• Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

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  People, Giving, Trying

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.

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  Men, People, Appreciate

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  Ian MacKaye

  Track, Decision, Want

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sorry, Clear, Feels

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

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  Tape, Letters, Posters

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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.

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  Memories, Past, Looks

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• One aspect of our site that I really appreciate is how I put up as much information as I've been able to keep track of: dates, the venue, the city, the country, the number of people there, the door price, opening bands, that sort of thing. One of the very first comments we had was from a guy who said, "By the way, the opening band in Albany in 1993 was not the Very Nice Neighbors, it was the Very Pleasant Neighbors." That brought a great joy to me.

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  Country, Nice, People

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• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  Ian MacKaye

  Beautiful, Quality, Example

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

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  Art, Mind, Records

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• What people don't understand is that the underground that existed was created in the early 80s and was thriving throughout the 80s. Until the industry showed up it was a pretty significant network. It was all happening, but the smell of money had not wafted up high enough for the industry. It wasn't really until they came descending on Seattle that things really got out of control.

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  People, Enough, Significant

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• When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

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  Song, Writing

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• My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

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  Thinking, Views, People

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?

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  Bars, Celebrate, Opening

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

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  Religious, Gathering, Persons

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

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  Book, People, Records

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other countries, that's a problem. That's what people should be concerned about. The fact that other people don't understand me is not a problem. I keep things in perspective.

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  Country, Land, Government

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

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  Thinking, People, Dry

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